National Gallery of Prague

National Gallery of Prague

 

(Národní Galerie), the largest art museum of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It was founded in 1949 from the art collections of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art (founded 1796) and the Gallery of Modern Art (founded 1901) and from collections of graphic art of the National Museum and the Charles University Library.

The gallery is housed in the Šternberk, Valdštejn, and Kinský palaces and in other buildings. It possesses a first-rate collection of Czech and Western European paintings, graphic art works, and sculpture of the 14th through 20th centuries, including the Třebon and Vyšší Brod altars and works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, A. Dürer, H. Daumier, P. Gauguin, A. Rodin, A. Maillol, and P. Picasso. It also has collections of art of the Far East.

REFERENCE

Ketrbová, M. Praha, Národní galerie: Sbírka starého umǎní. Prague, 1971. (Catalog.)